Iraq's prime minister says former President Saddam Hussein will be handed to Iraqi legal custody on Wednesday and charged the following day.
Saddam Hussein will not face trial for several months and will remain in a US-run jail until Iraqi detention services are ready to take physical custody.
Eleven other top detainees will be handed over, including former Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, Ali Hassan al-Majid - known as "Chemical Ali" - former Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan, and two of Saddam Hussein's half-brothers.
And what charges will Saddam Hussein be facing? Let´s have a look with the BBC:
Iran-Iraq war
In 1980, after a series of border skirmishes following Iran's Islamic revolution, Iraq invaded Iran. The ensuing bloody war claimed the lives of at least one million people.
Attacks on Iraqi Kurds
In 1988, when Kurds in northern Iraq were pushing for autonomy, Iraq forces used cyanide gas against the Kurdish town of Halabja, killing an estimated 5,000 civilians.
Invasion of Kuwait
In August 1990 Saddam Hussein sent Iraqi troops into Kuwait which led to the Gulf War in January 1991. Iraqi soldiers are alleged to have tortured and summarily executed detainees and on retreating looted Kuwait City and seized hundreds of Kuwaitis, taking them back to Baghdad.
Scud attacks on Israel
Israel says it wants Saddam Hussein to be prosecuted for Iraqi Scud missile attacks on Israel during the 1991 Gulf War.
Killings, persecution and torture
Evidence has emerged of 270 mass graves across Iraq which are believed to hold the remains of possibly tens of thousands of people.
UN inspections
During the 1990s, he defied the United Nations and the international community by failing to comply with international weapons inspectors over the issue of weapons of mass destruction.
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